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Lindgren, living with her young family in Stockholm, kept extensive diaries throughout the Second World War, which later lay forgotten in a laundry basket for many years. They offer a unique account of a world devastated by conflict, viewed through the eyes of a wife, a mother, an aspiring writer and a guilt-ridden citizen of a neutral state. Alongside accounts of military, political and global events we read vignettes of domestic life, rationing , children's birthdays, summer holidays with relatives, growing marital tension and the excitement of taking wing as a children's writer.

Image Credit: The backdrop to our website is a beautiful photo of the Öresund Bridge by Silvia Man/imagebank.sweden.se. Öresundsbron is a 15.9 km long connection between Sweden and Denmark. It is both a bridge and a tunnel, and carries both motor and rail traffic. It was opened in 2000 and is well known in the UK to viewers of the popular TV drama series The Bridge shown on BBC4.